I like eating before bed, but over the years I've heard a lot of bad about it. I normally eat around 6pm, then have a shake at 11pm and I'm to bed at midnight. If it fits with my macros, does it matter at all when the calories are consumed? Is the sleeping causes the nutrients to turn to fat mumbo-jumbo actually true?

Your body burns calories slower when you sleep so if you are trying to shed pounds, eating before bed can be bad, but at the end of the day if your total calorie intake is what you want it to be for the day, it doesn't matter.

Eating before bed is only bad if there's some psychological aspect that causes you to eat too much, like the fact that you feel less able to control portions before bed.

The info ITT is 100% correct. There was an askscience about this awhile ago, and your metabolism is not some fickle bitch. Eating before bed is nearly exactly the same as eating any other time of day. In fact, it takes your body about 72+ hours to go into starvation mode, so they even said you could have diets as crazy as one 4000kcal meal every other day, or 10 200kcal meals a day, and it'd be nearly the same for your metabolism. Probably not for your psychological health though.

I think the real problem is when people get home from work they just snack until they go to bed because they are bored, then blame it on the time that they ate when in reality they just ate too much. I know I've done it lol.

The only real reason food before bedtime makes people fat is because they tend to just open the fridge and eat whatever they can grab, which usually means sugar. If they ate proper food it wouldn't make a difference.

It's not bad at all; in fact, some say it may be good. Your body goes through a natural hormonal cycle throughout the day, such that your insulin sensitivity is highest in the morning, meaning that your tissues are ready and waiting to suck up nutrients. That includes fat cells.

However, your insulin sensitivity is lower in the evening. If you train with weights later in the day, your muscles will become very receptive to nutrients, but your fat cells will still be resistant.

Some theorize that this can lead to a beneficial partitioning effect, by eating later in the day after training with weights.

doesn't matter, I've read a few articles citing studies de-bunking the "no dinner before bed" myths. I don't eat within 3 hours of bed because it messes with my sleep. If it doesn't bother you, go with it.

I eat tonnns right before bed... Like often even the minute before jumping in bed. I've hit some pretty ambitious fitness goals in the last year, and I've been doing this the whole time. Not eating before bed practically has its own chapter in the Broscience textbook. Ignore it.

I would say that the best reason to not eat before bed is because it extends the amount of time that you are not eating. If you eat dinner at 6, then don't eat breakfast until 8 or 9, you've just not eaten for 14-15 hours. Especially good if you're on a diet.

Eating carbs before sleeping can actually be beneficial if you're diabetic (for any diabetic lifters). It prevents your body from becoming hypoglycemic while you sleep. Some dude won a nobel prize somewhat recently for discovering the enzymatic mechanisms behind this.

If you have issues with GERD, then you might not want to eat foods rich in fat before sleeping. The bottom sphincter muscle of the stomach doesn't release fats for usually at least four hours; it will make it much more likely that you'll suffer some reflux while you sleep.

The broscience i've heard on the matter is that you normally produce a lot of HGH in those first few hours you're asleep, but having undigested or mid-digestion food (especially carbs) during that time of initial sleep will cause insulin release (just like any other time you eat), and insulin and HGH are basically two similarly charged poles of a magnet. Hence, you have insulin in you, keeping you from reaping the benefits of the HGH that would keep your gainz comin and your fats burnin.

Cottage cheese a handful of frozen berries and a bit of chocolate whey and you have got a party going. I agree straight cottage cheese is not everyone's cup of tea, I can eat it but do not enjoy it. But the mix above is seriously delicious, I eat it every night, don't knock it until you try it.

I tend to try and have a greek yogurt before I go to bed for the slow digesting proteins. And, when I'm bulking, I try to eat a ton all the time (this bulk I'm starting low, only 4000 cals a day) so my near bed time meals get substantially larger. When I start to really have to shovel the food in I tend to not eat enough early in the day accidentally and then have to eat like 2-3k calories before bed. I'm not too worried